Open AccessPredicting obesity in early adulthood from childhood and parental obesity
Author(s) -
Anthea Magarey,
Lynne Daniels,
T. J. C. BOULTON,
R. A. COCKINGTON
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
international journal of obesity
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.663
H-Index - 225
eISSN - 1476-5497
pISSN - 0307-0565
DOI - 10.1038/sj.ijo.0802251
Subject(s) - overweight , body mass index , obesity , medicine , demography , childhood obesity , cohort , pediatrics , sociology
To determine the degree of tracking of adiposity from childhood to early adulthood, and the risk of overweight in early adulthood associated with overweight in childhood and parental weight status in a cohort of children born in the mid-1970s.
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